Children’s books, to a great extent because they are written for those who cannot participate in the market, can ...

Much of what was great about Chris Jefferies was used to attack him and destroy his reputation when the media, ...

The moment comes early in Mohammad Rasoulof’s new film, The Seed of the Sacred Fig, which won the Special Prize at Cannes ...

That is pure fiction.’ Los Angeles takes most of its water not from the delta but from the Owens Valley (Payahuunadü, the ...

Stanford was among the first composers in Britain to write church music that was not automatically relegated to ...

Robert Schumann’s teenage ambitions of virtuosity were undone by the onset of debilitating pain in his right hand.

In her recent piece for the paper, Patricia Lockwood revisits David Foster Wallace’s work in the light of posthumous publications and the shadow of #MeToo. Lockwood joined Joanne O’Leary, an editor at ...

Hamas had been able to take power in Gaza because Israel had failed to circumscribe Palestinian politics within the Oslo boundaries. But in the event, Hamas was useful to Israel's larger strategy of ...

David talks to Mark Ford and Seamus Perry, hosts of Political Poems, about what makes a great political poem. Can great poetry be ideological? How much does context matter? And is it possible to tell ...

A t a canteen ​ in Leningrad in December 1941, a man queued for two hours, handed over his ration card, received a bowl of soup and a bowl of porridge, ate the soup and died. A crowd formed around him ...

Tom Johnson joins Malin Hay to discuss the revolution in numeracy and use of numbers in Early Modern England. How did the English go from seeing arithmetic as the province of tradespeople and ...

The speeches American presidents deliver on the day of their inauguration don’t make much of a difference to anything. A handful have given resonant phrases to the language (‘The better angels of our ...